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From: John E Brandt
Date: Jul 16, 2013 12:28PM

I've been playing around with AddThis http://www.addthis.com/ which has at
least discussed the issue of accessibility. It is not perfect, but the main
buttons appear to work correctly with VoiceOver on the Mac.

I am using/testing this widget on a WordPress installation. There is an old
(and probably outdated) AddThis Drupal Module. See discussion here:
http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/questions/807187-addthis-and-drup
al

See conversation in their support forum:
http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/questions/119847-accessibility

~j

John E. Brandt
jebswebs: accessible and universal design,
development and consultation
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207-622-7937
Augusta, Maine, USA

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jennifer Sutton
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 12:31 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] identifying an accessible social media sharing widget

Greetings, WebAIM:

I was looking at the Share This widget, on behalf of a client. It's not very
accessible, at least based on the versions I've seen:

http://www.sharethis.com/

In my search, I ran across this thread, regarding an implementation of it as
a Drupal module:

https://drupal.org/node/1289054

It was certainly disheartening to see someone from the company repeatedly
indicate in here that the company had no plans to fix issues, despite the
provision of specific recommendations.

Has anyone found a more accessible version of something like this that
they'd like to recommend?

A Drupal module would be handy, but a basic sharing widget that can be
deployed anywhere would also be useful to me.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Best,
Jennifer

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